Original language: German
In the early 1990s, she played a key role in establishing “Women of Color Spaces” (spaces for the perspectives of Black and migrant women) in Germany. She helped organize and carry out the first and second nationwide congresses for Black women, migrant women, women living in exile, and Jewish women, and documented them together with May Ayim.
Recently, she has devoted particular attention to modern slavery and labor exploitation, with a focus on women in “domestic services.” Through her tenacity, she has, among many other achievements, succeeded in getting the Federal Foreign Office to implement structural changes to address the exploitation of migrant workers in diplomatic households. Since 1997, she has worked for Ban Ying, a counseling and coordination center against human trafficking in Berlin. There, she is responsible for lobbying, public relations, and human rights work.
In addition, she has been a lecturer at various universities since 1994, where she teaches seminars on human rights-related topics such as racism, marginalization, and discrimination. Outside of academia, she offers diversity training and continuing education for police officers. Since 2010, she has also directed the master’s program “Social Work as a Human Rights Profession” in Berlin.
Dr. Nivedita Prasad served on the advisory board for the first nationwide study on the extent of forced marriages in Germany, published in November 2011, which was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, and was one of the members who distanced themselves from Minister Schröder’s presentation of the study’s findings.